Quotes

"From Christopher Hitchens

- "Beware the irrational, however seductive.
- Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself.
- Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others.
- Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
- Picture all experts as if they were mammals.
- Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity.
- Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
- Suspect your own motives, and all excuses.
- Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
 
"When a cat falls out of a tree, it lets go of itself.
The cat becomes completely relaxed, and lands lightly on the ground.
But if a cat were about to fall out of a tree and suddenly make up its mind that it didn’t want to fall, it would become tense and rigid, and would be just a bag of broken bones upon landing.

In the same way, it is the philosophy of the Tao that we are all falling off a tree, at every moment of our lives. As a matter of fact, the moment we were born, we were kicked off a precipice, and we are falling, and there is nothing that can stop it.
So instead of living in a state of chronic tension, and clinging to all sorts of things that are actually falling with us because the whole world is impermanent, be like a cat."

~ Alan Watts
 
October 29th marks the transition of Gurdjieff. From the Legacy foundation:

G. I. Gurdjieff



“Lord Creator and all you His assistants,
help us to be able to remember ourselves at all times
in order that we may avoid involuntary actions,
as only through them can evil manifest itself.”

— Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
The Struggle of the Magicians​
 
Voyageur said:
October 29th marks the transition of Gurdjieff. From the Legacy foundation:

G. I. Gurdjieff



“Lord Creator and all you His assistants,
help us to be able to remember ourselves at all times
in order that we may avoid involuntary actions,
as only through them can evil manifest itself.”

— Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
The Struggle of the Magicians​
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near his " transition" he does not look that happy...
 
“An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

"And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
~ Howard Zinn
 
LucTalks substack entry citing/quoting R.G. Collingwood, Essay on Philosophical Method, on self-knowledge.

This also means that each individual is a reality-creator in ways we can’t grasp, for he is part of History. Except that, again, Reality-as-history talks back: it is a dialogue, a dance, an interaction, as opposed to us ordering around Reality by visualizing ‘n stuff. As Collingwood said, “history is the life of mind itself.”

You see, getting into the “life of mind itself,” which is history, is the same thing as self-knowledge: and self-knowledge “is desirable and important to man, not only for its own sake but as a condition without which no other knowledge can be critically justified and securely based.”
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I am currently reading Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions and came to the chapter titled, “Traditionalism as the Tree and the Ark of the Radical Selves” by the author Uligang Xanth Ansbrandt. Towards the end of this chapter, in section 4.1 “Vertical and Horizontal, Dry and Damp Initiations”, he paraphrases excerpts from both Alexander Dugin and Julius Evola that reminded me of something psychologically/spiritually resurgent and inspiring the C’s once said. (One of my personal favorite quotes from them might I add.)

The first, from Dugin, says:

“…in the marginal periphery, the chosen ones are a kind of “lost angels”, who live among the worst outcasts of modern-postmodern degeneracy but do not identify with them, keeping intact their divine inner quality while everything around them changes in the final dissolution of all forms.”
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And second, regarding Evola:

“Similarly, Evola beteaches that these superior beings, which in normal civilizations are born embedded within chains of horizontal tradition which are appropriate to their nature, often come to incarnate within degenerate, abnormal civilizations, in which they will find themselves in forlorn to unlucky, uneasy and dangerous situations and unfavorable contexts, as if they were on a fighting line in a risky battle, with the precise mission of re-establishing order, boundaries and shapes to reconnect the underworld of matter unto the overworld of the spirit.”
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And juxtaposed with what the C’s said:

Laura said:
A: Close. You must never forget that this is a real war at the deepest levels, a war for souls and the future. All of you here are crucial to the successful outcome. All sorts of ploys will be utilized to destroy your unity. This was begun at your births and includes early childhood torture at the hands of those most susceptible to control in your lives. This was intended to make dysfunctional traits that would interfere with the successful completion of your respective missions. It is a great challenge. But you knew it beforehand and were strengthened for the task.
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Powerful reminder to remain highly cognizant of our positions and circumstances within this world, to work through the distractions and doubt-inducing events and experiences that inevitably creep into our lives in some form or fashion, and to continually work on our inner/outer discipline and orientation towards mission—or at least that’s what it instills in me.

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